Week Ahead: June 7-11

It’s the final count down! Let’s close it out strong!

Here is what’s up next week:

Monday, June 7
VS A-D
*Please make sure you have added your wellness activity (see below)
3:00 Comments and Grades due

Tuesday, June 8
VS E-H
11-12:00 Rising G9 Step Up
3:00 Verification reports due
3:15-4:30 MS Leadership Team mtg

Wednesday, June 9
9-10 Wellness Choice Board Activity
1-3:00 G8 Promotion Celebration Box pick up
3:15-4:30 AS meeting: Faculty Farewells

Thursday, June 10
*Happy Birthday Sanny Tran!
9-10:00 Final Assembly
2-3:00 AS Recognition Ceremony

Friday, June 11
Teacher check out due

Upcoming (on the radar)

• July 26: New Hire Orientation Begins
• August 2: Full Faculty Inservice Begins
• August 10: Orientation Day (1st day with students)

Closing out the school year: All teachers need to complete the check out process. Thao will be emailing the check out document to the faculty which indicates that tasks needs to be completed. In preparation for that, please note that to prep your room for summer, the following needs to be done. Given the current situation, you can complete this by June 15 yourself, or I can have it done for you:

• remove personal valuables
• ensure all moveable flat surfaces are cleared off (allows for cleaners to move furniture to clean the room)
• please remember that there will be a lot of construction in the MS this summer; all valuable school items should be secured, if you need assistance with this, please check with me

Rooms for next year:  With the final schedule pretty much set, we can now work on rooms for next year. There will be a few adjustments next year to accommodate room sharing that will be needed due to growth. We will also be giving a room back to G5 to support the move from 4 to 5 sections. The 3rd floor will now become the math/science hub (with art, LS, and EAL mixed in). Social studies will be on the 4th floor along with Modern World Language and a few other.

Colleagues Traveling Early:  Some colleagues are traveling early. Thank you to those covering advisories in their transit times. In order to make sure we all know who is where: Ryan B departed Weds; John, Claire, Jacob, Kelley and Rob will depart this weekend.

Advisory: Next Wednesday, June 9, will offer 30-minute Wednesday Wellness Choices to our students. Here is the schedule:

• 9:00 AM Students Zoom into a 5-minute all division school assembly. 
• 9:10 AM Students Zoom into their Wednesday Wellness Choice
• 9:11 AM Advisory notes names of students present and emails to MS office who will note in PowerSchool
• 9:40-9:45 AM -Wednesday Wellness Choice Activities conclude.
• 10:00 AM Students Zoom into advisory (this final advisory experience is planned by advisors)

To prepare for this, please find your grade level on this link and do the following by Sunday @ 9:00 PM:

1)Add an activity or redo the same activity as last time)

• Add your Zoom link
• Write your name (How students address you) 
• Write a short description for your activity
• Follow this example:

Supporting our students: The following is a portion of the email that includes videos and a reflection activity were sent out to each student who used the Class Google Groups to send out the Padlet.  I [Daniel] wanted to make them available to you in case a student asks you about the email I sent.
It is crucial you understand that your email with your Yearbook padlet link to the class of 2027 email group is a form of SPAM email.  To better understand this concept, I would like you to please watch this video that helps you understand SPAM further: 
https://youtu.be/DmC7cVCqAxs
SSIS class email groups are designed for school-sanctioned information that all students need to receive. They help inform you and your classmates and various faculty and staff members around the school that need to know this important information.  Your Class of 2027 email went to our head of school, Dr. Catriona Moran.
Protecting your digital footprint is very important.  Please watch this video to understand what other teens say about protecting their digital footprint.

Final VS Progress Doc Update: Below are links to the G6-G8 VS Progress documents updated 6/3/21. They are for your reference only and no further follow-up is needed on your part. On Friday, the office team will send out certificates to those with 0, 1, 2 or 3 missing Q4 for assignments only. No parent communication will be sent to students/parents with 5 or more missing assignments. Thank you for all of your support and conscientiousness in keeping your PowerSchool records up to date during Virtual School. G6 VS Progress Q3 & Q4 ’20-21
G7 VS Progress Q3 & Q4 ’20-21
G8 VS Progress Q3 & Q4 ’20-21